8 Mile

[00:18.23] It's alright, it's okay
[00:20.93] I'm gonna make it anyway
[00:23.55] Gonna make it, can't give up now
[00:25.98] I'ma make it somehow
[00:29.05] Sometimes I just feel like quittin', I still might
[00:31.89] Why do I put up this fight? Why do I still write?
[00:34.59] Sometimes it's hard enough just dealin' with real life
[00:37.24] Sometimes I wanna jump on stage and just kill mics
[00:39.96] And show these people what my level of skill's like
[00:42.60] But I'm still white, sometimes I just hate life
[00:45.37] Somethin' ain't right, hit the brake lights
[00:47.78] Case of the stage fright, drawin' a blank like
[00:50.61] Da-duh-duh-da-da, it ain't my fault
[00:53.47] Great big eyeballs, my insides crawl
[00:56.00] And I clam up, I just slam shut
[00:58.65] I just can't do it, my whole manhood's
[01:01.14] Just been stripped, I have just been 'victed
[01:03.35] So I must then get off the bus then split
[01:06.07] Man, fuck this shit, yo, I'm goin' the fuck home
[01:09.07] World on my shoulders as I run back to this 8 Mile Road
[01:12.05] I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan
[01:14.07] Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land
[01:16.77] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands
[01:19.48] Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back (8 Mile Road)
[01:22.63] And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'
[01:24.83] Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone
[01:27.38] Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own
[01:30.06] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
[01:33.22] I'm walkin' these train tracks, tryna regain back
[01:35.67] The spirit I had 'fore I go back to the same crap
[01:38.62] To the same plant, in the same pants
[01:41.26] Tryna chase rap, gotta move ASAP
[01:43.70] And get a new plan, Momma's got a new man
[01:46.27] Poor little baby sister, she don't understand
[01:48.73] Sits in front of the TV, buries her nose in the pad
[01:51.56] And just colors until the crayon gets dull in her hand
[01:54.16] While she colors her big brother and mother and dad
[01:56.71] Ain't no tellin' what really goes on in her little head
[01:59.49] Wish I could be the daddy that neither one of us had
[02:02.13] But I keep runnin' from somethin' I never wanted so bad
[02:04.82] Sometimes I get upset, 'cause I ain't blew up yet
[02:07.67] It's like I grew up, but I ain't grow me two nuts yet
[02:10.32] Don't gotta rep my step, don't got enough pep
[02:13.13] The pressure's too much, man, I'm just tryna do what's best
[02:15.84] And I try, sit alone and I cry
[02:18.23] Yo, I won't tell no lie, not a moment goes by
[02:20.69] That I don't pray to the sky, please, I'm beggin' you, God
[02:23.50] Please don't let me be pigeonholed in no regular job
[02:26.09] Yo, I hope you can hear me, homie, wherever you are
[02:28.76] Yo, I'm tellin' you, dawg, I'm bailin' this trailer tomorrow
[02:31.46] Tell my mother I love her, kiss baby sister goodbye
[02:34.13] Say whenever you need me, baby, I'm never too far
[02:36.74] But yo, I gotta get out there, the only way I know
[02:39.84] And I'ma be back for you the second that I blow
[02:42.32] On everything I own, I'll make it on my own
[02:45.27] Off to work I go back to this 8 Mile Road
[02:47.98] I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan
[02:50.10] Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land
[02:52.74] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands
[02:55.50] Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back (8 Mile Road)
[02:58.57] And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'
[03:00.76] Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone
[03:03.37] Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own
[03:06.07] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
[03:08.63] You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't, you wouldn't get it
[03:11.50] Or see what the big deal is, why it was, and it still is
[03:14.13] To be walkin' this borderline of Detroit city limits
[03:16.60] It's different, it's a certain significance, a certificate
[03:19.42] Of authenticity, you'd never even see
[03:22.13] But it's everything to me, it's my credibility
[03:24.74] You never seen, heard, smelled or met a real MC
[03:27.34] Who's incredible upon the same pedestal as me
[03:30.11] But yet I'm still unsigned, havin' a rough time
[03:33.16] Sit on the porch with all my friends and kick dumb rhymes
[03:36.08] Go to work and serve MCs in the lunchline
[03:38.46] But when it comes crunch time, where do my punchlines go?
[03:41.49] Who must I show to bust my flow?
[03:44.07] Where must I go? Who must I know?
[03:46.75] Or am I just another crab in the bucket?
[03:48.78] 'Cause I ain't havin' no luck with this little rabbit's foot, fuck it
[03:51.24] Maybe I need a new outlet, I'm startin' to doubt shit
[03:54.42] I'm feelin' a little skeptical who I hang out with
[03:57.02] I look like a bum, yo, my clothes ain't about shit
[03:59.68] At the Salvation Army, tryna salvage an outfit
[04:02.57] And it's cold, tryna travel this road
[04:04.74] Plus I feel like I'm always stuck in this battlin' mode
[04:07.46] My defenses are so up, but one thing I don't want
[04:10.35] Is pity from no one, this city is no fun
[04:13.34] There is no sun, and it's so dark
[04:15.80] Sometimes I feel like I'm just bein' pulled apart
[04:18.36] From each one of my limbs, by each one of my friends
[04:20.81] It's enough to just make me wanna jump out of my skin
[04:23.37] Sometimes I feel like a robot, sometimes I just know not
[04:26.33] What I'm doin', I just blow, my head is a stove top
[04:29.28] I just explode, the kettle gets so hot
[04:31.51] Sometimes my mouth just overloads the gas that I don't got
[04:34.34] But I've learned, it's time for me to U-turn
[04:36.72] Yo, it only takes one time for me to get burned
[04:39.41] Ain't no fallin', no, next time I meet a new girl
[04:42.06] I can no longer play stupid or be immature
[04:44.77] I got every ingredient, all I need is the courage
[04:47.45] Like I already got the beat, all I need is the words
[04:50.61] Got the urge, suddenly it's a surge
[04:52.87] Suddenly a new burst of energy has occurred
[04:55.43] Time to show these Free World leaders the three and a third
[04:58.29] I am no longer scared now, I'm free as a bird
[05:00.74] Then I turn and cross over the median curb
[05:03.42] Hit the 'burbs and all you see is a blur from 8 Mile Road
[05:06.47] I'm a man, I'ma make a new plan
[05:08.89] Time for me to just stand up, and travel new land
[05:11.50] Time for me to just take matters into my own hands
[05:14.11] Once I'm over these tracks man I'ma never look back (8 Mile Road)
[05:17.22] And I'm gone, I know right where I'm goin'
[05:19.32] Sorry momma I'm grown, I must travel alone
[05:22.00] Ain't gonna follow no footsteps, I'm makin' my own
[05:24.89] Only way that I know how to escape from this 8 Mile Road
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